Who was Ted Kaczynski? The ‘Unabomber’ Dead at 81

American terrorist, Ted Kaczynski who caused a great threat to United States security, has been found dead in his cell at age 81. His crimes came to light after it was uncovered that he forced Washington Post and the New York Times to push his violent manifesto dubbed Industrial Society and Its Future in September 1995.

They only agreed to publish the manifesto on the condition that Kaczynski would end his campaign if a national paper published it. They were advised by the FBI and US Attorney General to do so. It was a 35,000-word anonymized document that railed against modern life and claimed that technology was leading to Americans suffering from a sense of alienation and powerlessness.

Kaczynski terrorized the United States for years and became the focus of the FBI. At some point, he was on the top list of the FBI’s most wanted and was considered the person who made the Bureau spend their most expensive budget on a criminal.

He was charged for coming numerous crimes, largely bombings from 1978 to 1995. At the peak of his bad deeds, he killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass mail-bombing spree.